 About 4.2% of the rural and 21.2% of the urban population have access to drinking water.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 151,931, of whom 77,112 were men and 74,819 were women; 12,048 or 7.93% of its population were urban dwellers.The majority of the inhabitants said they were Muslim, with 97.35% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 2.34% of the population practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.